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Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan was produced at the Opera Comique Theatre under the management of the Comedy Opera Company, on Saturday 25th May 1878 until 24 December and from Saturday 1st until Thursday 20th February 1879.\r\n\r\nDelighted with <i>The Sorcerer</i>, D’Oyly Carte commissioned a new work from Gilbert and Sullivan in December 1877. Britain was a seafaring nation, and Gilbert’s new libretto satirised the popular nautical melodramas of his youth such as Douglas Jerrold’s <i>Black Eye’d Susa</i>n. Gilbert had featured nautical folk and language in his <i>Bab Ballads</i>, and developed them in <i>H.M.S. Pinafore</i>, a shipboard opera that opened in May 1878 featuring the considerate Captain Corcoran, his gallant crew, the dastardly Dick Deadeye, the First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Joseph Porter (a thinly-veiled portrait of the bookseller turned politician W.H. Smith), his sisters, cousins and aunts, and Buttercup the Bumboat woman.\r\n\r\nAfter a slow start due to a summer heatwave, the opera was a hit by August after Sullivan included its sparkling tunes in a Covent Garden concert. Angered by a host of unauthorised American productions starting with one in Boston in November 1878, Carte planned its first authorised American production which opened the following year at New York’s Fifth Avenue Theatre in December 1879, with Sullivan conducting.\r\n\nFaustin was the pseudonym of the artist Faustin Betbeder (1814-ca.1914) born in Soissons, France. A friend of the artist Gustave Dore and a pupil of the cartoonist Alfred Grevin, who also produced set and costume designs for popular theatre, Faustin became known in France as a caricature artist of unflattering caricatures of personalities in the Franco-Prussian war. 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